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Sunday, June 17, 2012
10:07 am
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So this is it, Gasmi. We’ve reached the last round of auditions before Vegas week. Will we finally see some ballroom dancers? Will they continue the trend of showing mostly awesome dancing? Will Nigel lose his Viagra prescription once and for all?
I tried hiding it once but that fucker always finds it!
Joining the Perv and the Screech Monkey this evening is Adam Shankman. I have this weird love hate thing going on with Adam. I love that he’s always so enthusiastic about the dancers and how you can tell he reallyloves dance, but I’m still pissed at him for calling Danny arrogant and being Mean Girl Mia’s number two bitch a couple of seasons ago.
You need to move on
I know, Adam, I do. Just please don’t ever go back to that, mmmmkay?
Once again we get to hear from Mary about what not to do while Adam acts it out for the hearing impaired dancers among them.
Is Nigel checking out Adam’s ass?
I’m sure the dancers all find these tips to be very helpful since they’re no doubt choreographing their audition pieces on the spot, right??? Oh. Wait. Nevermind. The audition modus operendus remains the same: Awesome=ticket to Vegas, good=choreography, suckage=shown to the door.
Our first dancer of the evening is Witney Carson. She’s a ballroom dancer and adorable little blonde thing who tells us she will be doing Latin ballroom dancing which she’s been doing since she was eight. We see pictures of a little Witney and it appears that she has been adorable her entire life.
She’s going to be doing a cha cha tango today, and she tells us that it’s really sensual and sexy. I can already see the drool pooling at Nigel’s feet. It’s funny because she’s really cute and perky talking about bringing the sensuality to her dancing on stage. I’m not quite sold on her ability to shake the cute factor.
The judges take to her immediately; Nigel thinks she’s as cute as a button. He asks if she’s been competing and she says she’s just started with a new partner so they haven’t been competing together yet. Her partner isn’t auditioning because he’s only sixteen. Of course Nigel has to make a crack about her going for younger men.
Don’t you like dirty old men as well???
Time to perform.
LOVE HER!! It really is amazing that all traces of cute little adorable thing are GONE when she dances. The judges keep looking at each other throughout her performance as if they can’t quite believe what they are seeing. This girl is really something special.
Standing ovation from the judges. Nigel tells Witney that they’ve seen some fabulous ballroom dancers on this show, and then he compares her to Anya which I think we can all agree is VERY high praise. Personally, she reminds me more of Chelsie Hightower with that combo of cute and fierce, but either way Witney is fantastic.
Mary says she was commenting to Adam about how girly she is, but then she walked upstage and struck her pose and turned into a woman. Whoa-man. Mary thinks Witney is for sure what she calls a hot tamale. Oh……no.
That’s on the list of things I haven’t missed.
Witney’s dancing has cause Adam to come down with a sudden case of Turret’s. “Shut the fuck up! You were amazing!!!!” He tells her. In the audience her mom adorably covers her ears. He thinks she is everything this show is all about. Obviously the girl is going to Vegas!!
Next up is Lynn Gravatt who tells us she first started dancing when a force entered her and danced her around the living room. I’m already annoyed because I can tell this is going to be a joke of an audition and we’re already wasting WAY too much fucking time on it!
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Season 7 was the one where there was only a top 10…plus Billy. With a regular top 20, Adrian probably would have made the cut. And while I can kind of understand why he felt so dejected, I was also a little put off by how accusatory he seemed while retelling the story. Dude, it sucked you tried out on the odd season out but acknowledge and move on.
And I had the exact reaction to Gene you did…the more he talked to Cat the stabbier I felt and then he danced and I was really surprised. So I was primed to really like Murphy since I figured he’d be this season’s Tadd…but, no.
It’s about time they had some ballroom dancers. Witney Carson was fabulous! She reminded me of Chelsie Hightower too. Lindsay Arnold wasn’t nearly as good. I expected Gene to be a joke audition, too, but Sonja or Mia could do some really cool things with him. Johnny Ahn? Ewww ewww ewww! So skeezy!! And charm factor? Um, no.
I’m excited for this season, but also apprehensive because it seems like it’s going to be another contemporary/jazz heavy season.
I liked Witney too. I can’t imagine how her dad felt about Nigel perving on her.
I loved the Krump girl, she was just so unexpected. I would love to see her dance with Russell doing choreography by Lil C. There hasn’t been a good girl hip hopper in a while.
Hopefully at least one of my early favorites make it through Vegas.
There was a point early on in Rachel’s audition when they cut to Mary and Nigel. Mary has a “WTF?” face on, while Nigel is grinning from ear to ear. Classic pervy Nigel!!!
It was nice to see some ballroom dancers, I agree. There were some particularly good female dancers in the ballroom crowd.
There are a bunch of people on the interwebz who think they are Pelaidians. Or this chick has cosmically danced all over virtual life posting wildly.
Ugh, too much time spent on bad dancers. I caught that thing where Adrian said he hadn’t told his family he was auditioning, but then called his mom and said he made it to Vegas with no explanation. I was thinking it may have been editing…maybe he started the conversation with explaining where he was and they just didn’t show it. I guess I don’t want to think he just blatantly lied.
Also, I hate hate hate that Rachel chick. She didn’t dance! She just got up on stage and writhed around for pervy Nigel. Congratulations, you have the talent to be a stripper.
I thought the same thing about Adrian, but when he called his mom she asked where he was. They probably thought there was a chance he might do it, but he never confirmed it.
@SouthernTippi – I caught that part where his mom asked him where he was, too. But hadn’t thought they would have suspected he was going to try out.
And even if they hadn’t, it’s his second time to get through to Vegas. It probably wasn’t hard to figure out what he meant by it.
Awesome as always, PM! I fullllly expected to hate that praying mantis guy, so wow was I floored when he danced! My DH was too, in fact, he made me back it up to watch again. Just awesome!
I’m not sure who that Rachel girl reminds you of, unless, were you at Pacers last week? (Sorry, local strip joint in San Diego — only person I could think that she might have reminded you of).
I was thoroughly prepared to hate mantis-boy, and I adored him. I honestly didn’t think I’d like krump-girl as much as I did– I trained in ballet and jazz, mostly, but she rocked, in a big way. I hope she can learn other styles, because even in choreo, she was pretty “hard”.
Question – does anyone know if they leak the “guest/3rd” judge ahead of time? It seemed like Atlanta got a lot of the “Debbie Allen” type dancers, and so on and so forth. Now, I’m from Atlanta, and that could just be my perception of the dancers they showed – or it’s just the way the show was edited. But it seems like if you’re really a certain style – you might try to make sure you travel to where the guest/3rd judge who likes/knows that style best is going to be.
PottyMouth!!! Where have you been these past seasons??? LOVE your recaps and am SO glad that I found you!! I only wish I had found you sooner :” (
My sincere wish for this year is a return to great choreography. I miss the ‘Wow!’ dances – Wade Robson “Rama” and Nappy/Tabs “Outa Your Head” and Sonya “The Garden”- that kind of stuff! Last year seemed kinda… ‘meh’ to me, does that make sense? Maybe it was just me, I don’t know?
Anyway, thanks for the fun and fantastic recaps! And if the creeper ballet guy makes top 20, I will cheer you on with any and all nasty comments you deem appropriate to post!! Ewwww!! So wrong!!